"Build your own foundations."
=^)
-Izzy Boy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:36 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Eat, drink, or ... ?
>
> Carl has a couple of times used the metaphor that, in using REBOL for
> projects we "drink our own wine" -- eg
> http://www.rebol.net/article/0121.html
>
> That's a better metaphor than Microsoft's one of "eating your own dog
> food"
> -- calling your products dog food is a revealing remark.
>
> But alcohol allusions are not trouble-free either. Alcohol abuse is a
> primary factor in much crime and disease. Also, social use of alcohol is
> not
> acceptable in all countries.
>
> So I was wondering (as a non-pet owning, teetotal vegan) if we could find
> an
> upbeat and universal metaphor.
>
> So far, all my mind has thrown up is *worse* metaphors -- like "we get
> high
> on our own supply" -- there are several obvious problems with that, not
> least
> that it's exactly what Al Pacino's Scarface was advised *not* to do.
>
> I'm sure anyone here can do better than that.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Sunanda
>
>
>
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